Ben Grimm, however, remained awesome.

I gave up comics, for a while, back in the early 90s. Picked them up again about ten years later. I never gave it much conscious thought, why I quit (other than the plague of X-book crossovers).

Tonight I was looking over some of the books I got at around that time, and came across Fantastic Four 370, from '92. I'm posting this panel because it's just so insanely meta. :) And because it pretty well encapsulates the aforementioned why.



You know, I know that this era of comic books is going to inevitably be some folks' nostalgia fix, the way comics were when they were young, the period that all other comic eras fail to match. It's just hard for me to imagine.